Darren Brady Nelson: Aussie tax, Aussie federalism, Aussie house prices

Darren Brady Nelson is the chief economist at LibertyWorks, writes for Townhall, and is a policy advisor at the Heartland Institute. He is also a regular commentator in traditional and online Australian and American media. His main influences include the Austrian school of economics, common law, and Christian apologetics. In this episode we discuss: Big Tech Censorship The GST was a bad idea Woke business Austrian vs Keynesian economics Christianity and economics China's success Watch this episode on Youtube: https://youtu.be/UcWv-9H_eW8 Matt's Animated Promo Video Course Discount Link: https://www.udemy.com/course/animated-promo-videos/?couponCode=DISCERN Matt's Speed Reading Course Discount Link: https://www.udemy.com/course/learn-super-reading-hack-your-productivity-10x-guaranteed/?couponCode=PPLSPROJ Subscribe to Discernable on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/discernable?sub_confirmation=1 Join the Discernable Crew (email list) to never lose access to our content: https://www.discernable.io/crew -------------------------------- Resources we mentioned in the episode: Human Action by Mises (free): https://mises.org/library/human-action-0 Economics in One Lesson: https://mises.org/library/economics-one-lesson Millennials and the Progressive Movement: https://cdn.mises.org/12_1_6_0.pdf?token=K_ZxSrXg ------------------------------------- 2:12 Banned from LinkedIn! 4:08 Conservative ideology silenced 6:47 Big Tech censorship is a cartel 8:58 Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act 1996 that protects Big Tech 12:50 US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas speaks out against Big Tech 14:45 The Democrats are about to ‘pack the Supreme Court’ by adding more left wing judges 19:54 Forget left vs right, it’s authoritarian vs freedom 24:12 Australian states go to Canberra to beg for money 27:00 GST was a bad thing 28:20 A consumption tax to replace all taxes 29:57 A flat tax 36:25 The Left win the policy wars regardless of who is in charge 38:58 Big business loves tax hikes! 41:00 Wokeism always comes from businesses that have mega profits 42:13 The founder of BLM cashes in 44:40 Competitive federalism – why we need our states to compete 51:23 Increasing power in local governments 55:31 Austrian Economics 1:04:29 What is Keynesian Economics? 1:13:55 Australia loves Big Government 1:17:07 Australia’s housing market – a real boom or just fake inflation? 1:20:00 Income is going down as inflation rises 1:21:15 What should Australians do in this economic climate? 1:23:07 What is good about Keynesian Economics? 1:27:05 What’s the alternative to measuring GDP? 1:30:55 The overlap between Christianity and Economics 1:37:50 Will China’s economic success continue? 1:49:19 Darren doesn’t want a Magic Wand